REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1921, Page 5

REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

"WHITES" CAPTURE MOSCOW FLIGHT OF GOVERNMENT. RETREAT TO NIJNI NOVGOROD.

(By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright., ißecpived IO.KO a.m.) LONDON, March 6. Keval reports state that lighting again occurred at Moscow on Thursday between the insurgents and the "lied*.'' The latter were forced to abju lon tintown, only Lettish volunteers and tll« International Legion remaining to protect the KrcniLin. The Government left for Xijni Novgorod where Lenin is expectod to arrive. (A. and N. 7.. Cable.) CONFLICTING STORIES. MANY REPORTS OF REVOLT. CAPTURE OF KKONSTADT. LONDON', March 6. Conflicting reports are emanating from Russia- Some state that the revolution is definitely suppressed. Other accounts state that the revolution is extending, and that the revolutionaries hold Pe.troprod and Kronstadt, where, the sailors joined the revolutionaries; also that .(O.OOt) troops in Moscow refused to obey an order to march agH.in.-S ' revolutionaries, and that a white i\:i« replaces the Soviet tlasr above the Kremlin in Moscow. Hie Kcval correspondent of the Danish newspaper "Politikpn" declares that, 4(1,000 naval mutineer:; assisted "White" troop* to control \.he fortress at Kronstadt, and that Admiral Rusmiii, commander of the Soviet fleet in the Baltic, was arrested. Tne corres]>ondent adds that it is reported that 40,000 armed peasants, commanded by General AntonofT. control the Voronezh and Tamhoff areas in south-east Russia, and are th roul on inju .Moscow s food Mir>plies. It is reported in Paris that tlve Soviet Government has ordered the closing of the Rumanian frontier owing to a violent oTTtbronk at Odessa-, where the majority of the troops joined the revoltITg -"orkers. Other reports received in L"-iT^"a-' ! ißert that the rebels control the jvncttp«>t Petroerad and Moscow. n message states that a jrociamafion sipned by Ix'nin and Trot'ky declares thaf French apents enfrirreere4 'the Petrojrrad and Kronstadt revoi m fecurin" {Sw co-operation of SoeiaiTsTi- ~7id Czarjb* "fficers. Tlk , proclamation claims that i-he Petrojrrad garrison, rraiahß! loyal, and commands the city, whwi is quiet, but it admits that the revolutionaries hold Kronstadt. Riga advices staie that the Government has distributed its stocks of foodstuffs in the hope of stopping the revolt, and that widespread starvation is inevitable.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Latest tele<n"ams from llus.-ia state that PetroßTad is noiv quiet. Tin workers' quarter resembles the J'uttes Chaumont of Paris after the Communards were crushed in IS7I. The bodies of strikers lie unburicd in tnc streets. Kalenin, president of the Central Executive. has fallen into the hands of the rebels, also SinoviefT, president of the Petrofrrad Municipality. The Soviet Government now permits the inhabitants of l'etrojrrad to buy food in the country, and have withdrawn troops previously posted to prevent food coming in to Petrograd. The Soviet has summoned representatives of Communist parties of all the frontier States to Moscow to discuss the desirability of Russian action against the Governments of the frontier States in the coming spring. Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian Communists promised to stir up rebellions when the Russian-- attack, but German Communists re-fused to help. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

A FINNISH REPORT. WASHINGTON, March 6. The" Finnish Legation is officially advised that Russian revolutionaries have captured the Soviet fortress at Kronetadt. The Riga correspondent of tlu> United Press of America states that the Soviet Government has proclaimed a state of eic.gp in Petrograd, and admits that the revolutionaries have imprisoned Soviet leaders there.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) KRASSIN IN LONDON.

LONDON, March 5. Krassin, the Russian Soviet trade envoy to Britain, has returned to London. He hopes that an Anglo-Russian trade agreement will be signed in a few days.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)